by Kathleen Reckling, Deputy Director of Public Programs, ArtsWestchester Stephanie Wolfson is a house plant portraitist. The White Plains printmaker and SUNY Purchase alumna blends the exacting skill of botanical illustration with the tropes of contemporary “millennial” and “Instagram” aesthetics. The result is detailed renderings of popular house plants,…
by Mary Alice Franklin, ArtsNews Editor South of Hudson River Museum (HRM), also in Yonkers is St. Joseph’s Hospital. As a close neighbor, the Museum was motivated to help during the current health crisis. So Director and CEO Masha Turchinsky and Assistant Director for Facilities and Operations Todd Jones…
When asked what makes the Arts Award event special, event Co-Chair Deborah Simon commented: “My husband and I have traveled all over the world and collected many pieces from different cultures, giving us a great appreciation of the enormous talent that exists right here in our own backyard.” For more…
Installing Current, Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong’s winning sculpture design, in Tarrytown at the Westchester Landing of the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge’s path, is a challenging endeavor. In addition to time, the sculpture’s triangular steel arches, glass fins and complex lighting design require a team of installers, electricians and engineers to…
by Kathleen Reckling, Deputy Director of Public Programs, ArtsWestchester When COVID-19 landed in North America, artist Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong was away from her New York home, balancing a residency in Calgary, Canada with overseeing the complex fabrication of her monumental sculpture, Current. There was still pasta on the shelves of…
Caramoor announces flexible programming for Summer 20/2.0 with new, on-site, livestreamed performances featuring live open-air concerts, and public access to gardens, woodlands and sound art.
While our offices are closed and all our programming has been suspended, Lyndhurst has been in a unique position to offer its 67-acre parkland as a place of respite and beauty during this pandemic. This is in keeping with Lyndhurst’s history. Lyndhurst was likely constructed in response to the 1832 cholera epidemic in New York City when half the residents fled to the countryside. During World War II, Anna Gould, Duchess of Talleyrand, used Lyndhurst as a place of respite for soldiers from the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the convalescence buildings on the Lyndhurst property were known to sailors as “Club Lyndhurst.”
A collection of movie reviews and opinions from Marsha Gordon, President/CEO of The Business Council of Westchester. When she is not advocating for business, building the economy or creating job opportunities, you can find her at the movie theatre enjoying many different film genres.
Now may be a good time to head off to the mysterious, faraway land – and its world of magic, sprites, and spells – that William Shakespeare conjured in his idiosyncratic play The Tempest. In July 2011, Music from Copland House visited the Manhattan studios of WQXR for a “Café…
We are so fortunate to live in Westchester County, home to an abundance of excellent cultural organizations, many of which are offering live or recorded music via the internet as a sort of balm for the soul. When our normal becomes abnormal, there is still an underlying urge to…
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